CropsPeru's plant health agency SENASA has suspended chlorpyrifos, methomyl, glyphosate, imidacloprid and clothianidin on food crops for the home market after a Constitutional Court ruling, and the trade group ComexPerú says growers have been given no alternatives.
AgrotechIn a signed column, AgFunderNews editor Jennifer Marston argues that the digitisation of farms, food plants and cold chains has opened the food system to hackers, and that the sector has been slow to talk about it.
New guidelines from three Abu Dhabi agencies allow controlled public tastings of cultivated meat and precision-fermented foods, with lab checks and approval of each trial, before they are cleared for sale.
VegetablesA CABI PlantwisePlus campaign in Ghana's Ahafo Ano North District used local-language videos and open community discussions to tackle the misuse of highly hazardous pesticides on tomatoes and other vegetables, reaching 635 people in eight dialogues.
AgrotechBacked by $250,000 from Farm Credit Canada, the modular indoor farm built by Growcer should produce about 800 heads of lettuce a week for families the food bank serves.
EnvironmentAn IFPRI model finds that a very strong El Niño, combined with fuel and fertilizer prices driven up by the war in Iran, could cut Kenya's farm output, raise food prices and push about 756,000 more people into poverty under one scenario.
HealthIndia's food regulator FSSAI has ordered a batch of Everest cumin powder, sampled at a Goa resort, off the market for pesticide residues above the limit; its guidelines include simple home tests for adulteration.
HealthA pupil at a government primary school in Chilmari, Kurigram, found insects inside a school-feeding bun; the upazila education officer has ordered the whole batch returned and left unpaid.
AgrotechIn a strategy paper in the EFSA Journal, the European Food Safety Authority names cultivated meat and precision fermentation as priority areas and proposes a human-led, AI-enabled risk assessment model to avoid approval delays.
HealthAn ongoing doctoral study at MIT World Peace University detected fibres, fragments and pellets in freshwater fish entering Pune, estimating that a regular eater could ingest 93,600-124,800 particles over 50 years; detailed polymer analysis is still under way.
AgribusinessERS's Global Food Assessment estimates 884.4 million people, 19.5% of the population of 83 low- and middle-income countries, are food insecure in 2026, with most countries improving on 2025 but Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America facing persistent risks.
AgribusinessElite Agro Holding announced AED660m ($180m) of farm investments over more than 9,300 hectares, led by a $120m, 8,900-hectare project in Mauritania aimed at about 244,000 tonnes of produce for local and regional markets.
Fifty-seven teams of the consumer rights directorate checked gas cylinder and staple prices in Dhaka and 47 districts and fined traders Tk 1,091,000; an adulterated-milk operation in Bhangura was sealed.
